by Elizabeth Reed | Dec 19, 2020 | The FAÇeADE Project
Don’t Hang Up!…This is the Fire Department! Fire and IKIGAI Yup. I invited my friends for chili and a fire-pit last Friday night. Hint: A great way to clean your house is to invite friends for dinner. My brilliant idea of starting the chili in the cast...
by Elizabeth Reed | Nov 24, 2020 | The FAÇeADE Project
Thanksgiving and the Declaration of Interdependence On Sunday morning, while I gathered my things for a 30-mile bike ride on AIA with my friend, Georgeta Fondos, I listened to “On Being” on NPR. Krista Tippett interviewed poet laureate Richard Blanco about his book,...
by Elizabeth Reed | Oct 25, 2020 | Graphite and Silverpoint Drawings
The Influence of Lee Bontecou In 2005, my mom was always in the hospital. She had the good taste to go to Northwestern on the Northside of Chicago, spitting distance from The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Lee Bontecou’s retrospective was exhibited while I...
by Elizabeth Reed | Oct 15, 2020 | Trouvaille
Our Little Roses Ministries – The Self Portrait Project April, 2013 This life-changing adventure started when my 15-year-old daughter, Mem, wanted to go on a mission trip to Honduras. Our Youth Group director from St. Mary Magdalene Episcopal Church had a hard...
by Elizabeth Reed | Sep 2, 2020 | Commission a Portrait
What is a Visual Biography Anyway? How do we visually describe time? What compositional tools are the most effective? Time could be images laid in a “time” line. A linear composition would present images in order. (Very left brained!) First this happens, then this...
